Climate Change

Chlorine compounds that are the main cause of the ozone hole:

• Greenhouse Gas

• CFCs

• Global Warming

• Monsoon

The side of a mountain range that faces the oncoming wind and receives precipitation:

• Climate

• Windward

• Leeward

• Monsoon

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Sea or land breeze over a large region that can bring heavy rains:

• Windward

• Leeward

• Monsoon

• Sunspots

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is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional, and global climate.

• Climate chnage

• Ice sheets

• Kinetic energy

• Radiation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

_______ describes average weather patterns.

These patterns occur over a long period of time and region.

• Temperature

• Heat

• Climate

• Albedo

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

_______ is the amount of light reflected from a surface.

• Convection

• Climatograph

• Heat

• Albedo

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is a graph of climate data for a region based on average measurements taken over many years.

• Temperature

• Conduction

• Heat

• Climatograph

Name the substances that block the solar energy from reflecting back into the atmosphere.

• rain

• air

• clouds

• greenhouse gases

These graphs show increases in greenhouse gasses in Earth’s atmosphere. As levels of greenhouse gasses have increased, the temperature of Earth’s surface has risen. Which change has most likely contributed to a rise in surface temperatures on Earth?

• The world birth rate dropped to less than 22

  births per 1,000 people per year.

• The president of the United States signed a law

  that created one of the country’s largest nature

  parks.

• Farmers increasingly use chemical fertilizers

  that allow nitrogen and phosphorous to enter

  water sources.

• Humans began using work-saving technologies

  that release carbon dioxide and methane.

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The graph shows the increase in atmospheric

carbon dioxide concentration over several

decades.

Increasing carbon dioxide levels will directly affect

Earth's....

• magnetic and gravitational fields.

• weather and climate systems.

• mantle convection.

• rotation speed.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5